No expunging crimes with cash (3)

Law change amendment backed

(ANSA) - Rome, October 6 - Reparatory measures such as cash
offers should no longer be able to expunge crimes, Justice
Minister Andrea Orlando said Friday, backing an amendment to the
law. Orlando was speaking a day after a stalking offence was
expunged after the culprit offered 1,500 euros in compensation,
despite the sum being refused by the victim. A Turin court
ruled there had been "reparatory conduct" by the stalker.
Thursday's was one of the first instances of an August law being
applied to stalking cases. The Turin prosecutor general on
Friday challenged the sentence.